article describes which data sources are used for the simulation, how key features of the German tax and transfer system are …This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic … Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating …

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation … literature is to allocate this expenditure proportionally to post-tax cash income. We show that the gap in post-tax income shares …